On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Avram Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Rintze Zelle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You're saying you want to fold in a backward-incompatible feature
>>> addition with a bug fix release?
>>
>> In this context, backward-compatibility is the ability of a CSL 1.0.1
>> processor to handle CSL 1.0 styles and locales, right? Then only the bug fix
>> is backward-incompatible (as defining gender-specific ordinals in the CSL
>> locales will always be optional).
>
> I understand the importance of sticking to the versioning convention--
> so can't we say that this is 1.1.0, a new release that is primarily
> intended as a bug fix release, but which is incidentally backwards
> incompatible in a small way? The larger plans for 1.1 that were in the
> 1-2 year range can then be moved to 1.2. It does sometime happen that
> version numbers increment faster than we anticipate.

Given the way we've designed the schema (e.g. the version attribute),
the 1.x releases would suggest significant changes that would require
style and/or locales forks.

1.0.x releases are minor changes.

I would hope we don't need to many bug fix releases, but that when we
do need them, we can manage them fairly quickly.

Bruce

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